UK carriers response to Apples iphone 4 refund announcement

CWS1970

Exhortation wrote: »

This is from a third party (but taken from Voda's eForum) so I can't promise that it is their final word on the matter...

With any phone that we supply, you do get a 7 day piece (sic) of mind policy to change or cancel that contract.

If you have gone past the 7 days this option is not available.

If you think that there is a fault with that particular handset you can get a replacement within the first 28 days.

If you have any further questions please let us know.

Martin
eForum Team

The 7 day returns only applies if buying online etc does not apply to buying instore I'm afraid.

bubblesmoney

Oscartheposcar wrote: »

Here is the source:
And here's a little snippet from the article:


Happy to help

PS The article does say that they think the iPhone4 design is "too risky" because you can attenuate the signal, but this is a design decision, not some kind of mistake. As I've said, seems to be working well in actual real word use.

oops i hadnt seen your response on this thread hence the delay replying. i have replied to the anandtech quote on the other thread where this issue is being discussed. to avoid repetition i am posting the link https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/35179785#Comment_35179785 see my reply on that thread to your post today

bubblesmoney

DarkConvict wrote: »

Minor Correction, - Military SF use radio equipment that operates below the noise level and over a wide band to prevent bumps in background radiation levels. So it is possible, but extremely expensive kit and also very precise. Not for a mobile, but physically is possible. :P

signal noise floor varies according to the bands of transmission and not according to equipment being used. see my response to oscars post in this thread for a detailed explanation https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/35179785#Comment_35179785 noise floor levels vary according to the freq of transmission, for the uk transmission and usa transmission (800 - 2100MHz )gsm bands the noise floor will be between -111dbm to -114dbm. for other transmissions in kilohertz it can be about 120dbm or even higher. but that is not used in mobile transmissions.

even military grade equipment cant operate below the noise floor specific to the freq they use. they can obviously go below the noise floor of other frequencies though but that is not relavant. it is irrelavant if iphone can sense some other frequency other than the mobile signal transmission frequency and that is erroneously reported in the dbm shown on the handset! that wont make any difference for the call quality as that will be a different frequency.

bubblesmoney

Apple's iphone forum had a post for proximity sensor issue with more than 1700 replies with no answer by Apple. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2475509

The post was locked by Apple and later a continuation post was started. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2505360&tstart=15